Powers of 10: Modeling Complex Information-Seeking Systems at Multiple Scales

Computer

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 33-40

  Pirolli, Peter ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Cyber infrastructure initiative; Data mining; Information seeking support systems; Integrated circuit modeling; Predictive models; Probability density function; Psychology; Rational analysis; Search; Shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249164874     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.94     Document Type: Article

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